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ELPC's community partnerships

ELPC shares its space with a number of community organizations.

East End Cooperative Ministry (EECM) contributes to the health and welfare of people of all ages, races and creeds throughout the East End, through their Hunger Services, Housing Services, and Children & Youth Services programs. ELPC's support of EECM includes working closely with the following Good Samaritan programs located within our church building:

  • Men’s Emergency Shelter: provides beds for up to 30 homeless men, plus showers and an evening meal, every day of the year.
  • Soup Kitchen: serves noon-time meals Monday through Friday.
  • Food Pantry: dispenses purchased and donated food to individuals and families in need on weekdays.
  • After-School Tutoring: provides one-on-one academic help for neighborhood children (4—18 years old) during the school year.

We also support a number of other community organizations by sharing our space for meetings, rehearsals, and performances:

  • 12-step programs have regular meetings at East Liberty Presbyterian Church, including Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, and Al-Anon. View our calendar for meeting days and times.
  • Renaissance City Choir rehearses and performs at ELPC. It is a nonprofit organization composed of the Renaissance City Men's Choir and the Renaissance City Women's Choir. The choir's mission is to be a leading artistic organization representing Pittsburgh's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, building bridges within the GLBT community and the greater community as an interactive contributor to the cultural life of the tri-state area.
  • Open Hands Ministries, which provides new construction and home rehabilitation programs to offer safe, habitable housing to low and very low income, elderly, and single-parent households without regard to race or creed. Find out more: Dave Epperson, an Elder at ELPC and member of the family care team, was featured on a recent American Public Media documentary, “War on Poverty - from The Great Society to The Great Recession.” ELPC is also noted in the piece for its efforts to help rehabilitate a home for a family to move from a dangerous public housing development and become first-time home-owners. Read the transcript  |  Download the MP3. (June 2010)
  • Sojourner House (Pittsburgh), a designated Presbyterian Mission Agency Unit, is a faith-based residential rehabilitation facility where addicted women learn to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty and chemical abuse while in their own apartment with their children.
  • Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council offers periodic classes and tutoring at ELPC, including English as a second language (ESL) instruction.

Read more about how the Pittsburgh Presbytery helps in our community

The Pittsburgh Presbytery, of which ELPC is a member, works with 17 Ministry Teams and Taskforces, each engaging in community activities that help different populations in the Pittsburgh community. These teams combat issues of racism, social justice, hunger, poverty, violence, discrimination based on sexual orientation, and lack of basic health care. The teams also provide positive support for disciplemaking, college scholarships, peacemaking, mission efforts locally and in Malawi, as well as help for local congregations on stewardship, church property maintenance, and summer camps. The Ministry Teams involve more than 160 people actively working to help our community deal with an incredibly wide range of social, spiritual, economic, and physical problems, yet their efforts are largely unknown to the members of our Presbytery’s congregations. Every member of every congregation in Pittsburgh Presbytery needs to know that the teams are one
of the ways that Presbytery is making a difference in the lives of our neighbors. Read more about these ministry teams, with descriptions of their current projects.